Read the passage from "broken chain." for the next hour, until their mother threatened them from the living room to be quiet or else, they argued whether it was the same girl who had stood ernie up. alfonso said over and over that she was too nice to pull a stunt like that. but ernie argued that she lived only two blocks from where those girls had told them to wait, that she was in the same grade, and, the clincher, that she had ponytails. secretly, however, ernie was jealous that his brother, two years younger than himself, might have found a girlfriend. what does the transition word however show in this passage? ernie argued that the girl was the one who fooled him because he really believed she was the girl who fooled him. ernie argued that the girl was the one who fooled him. in contrast, he knew it was another girl. ernie argued about whether the girl was the one who fooled him, but really, he was upset that his brother might have a girlfriend. ernie argued that the girl was the one who fooled him. later, he realized he’d made a mistake.